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Netanyahu: Syrian regime 'will go'

By JUANA SUMMERS

07/22/2012 10:27 AM EDT

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the situation in Syria is not sustainable and could fall in "days or weeks or months."

"I think the regime will go...I don't know if it's days or weeks or months, but I don't think it's sustainable. But I think it will go," Netanyahu said on "Fox News Sunday." "I'm less concerned with what replaces it, but more concerned with the seam line of what could happen to those stocks of chemical weapons and those deadly rockets and missiles when there's no government in Syria. That's my principle concern."

Netanyahu's comments came in response to a question from "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace on how much control Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has over his country.

"This is a real problem," Netanyahu added, when asked what role Israel could play. "Can you imagine, Hezbollah, the people who are conducting with Iran all these terror attacks around the world? It's like Al Qaeda having chemical weapons. it's something that is not acceptable to us, and not acceptable to the United States and to any peaceable country in the World. So I think this is something we'll have to act to stop if the need arises, and the need might arise if there's a regime collapse but not a regime change."